"Who's next?" she thundered, stalking towards my table ( Read more... )

Recently I've been thinking a little about my spiritual life and how it has become really directionless of late.  In high school and college I did everything I could to push the path of my life off the comfortable, easy route, and into a service profession, forgoing opportunities to make a lot of money to instead pursue avenues that would lead me ( Read more... )

I happened to wander into Columbia's main campus around 11:30 am, after I left the 8th graders to their own assembly back at the school where I student teach.  In front of the library they had set up a Jumbotron and were handing out free hot chocolate.

For some reason they set the jumbotron up facing the north side of the campus, meaning that to ( Read more... )

I haven't had anything to post on here in a pretty long time.  Last entry was my exhortation to all readers (all six of you) to sign DK's petition to ask congress to help him begin the process of impeaching our criminal syndicate of a government, all the way back on July 30th, which I think was right before Michelle and I got to Yellowstone.  So ( Read more... )

Ladies and Gentlemen ( Read more... )

::long whistle ( Read more... )

So I just found out that Urban Academy (which is for all intents and purposes something like my dream school to teach at... especially take a look at the Stance on High-Stakes Testing in the sidebar on A Great Way to Learn), an alternative-education part of the Small Schools Initiative in NYC, has a 2-year internship program that it looks like can ( Read more... )

Acing last problem set of my undergraduate career:

Check.

So I finally decided: I am definitely doing a senior thesis ( Read more... )

It's been two and a half years and it seems I've all but run out of things to say here ( Read more... )